by Emilia & Linda on June 17, 2011
Tonight The Royal Ballet begins its three-day residency at London’s O2. This is the first time the Company has set foot on a UK arena and, to mark the occasion, they are fielding an all-star cast to perform in Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. Taking turns as the famous star-crossed lovers are Carlos Acosta and [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on June 8, 2011
Via Press Release: Ipswich-born Royal Ballet Principal Character Artist Gary Avis is bringing dancers from the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet to his home town this September to take part in a unique charity gala event in support of The Hunger Project. After a 40-year gap, East Anglian audiences will once again have the [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on April 1, 2011
Royal Ballet Principal dancer Mara Galeazzi is staging her second gala in London this Sunday. Proceeds from the gala will go towards Mara’s charity, Dancing for the Children, as well as Great Ormond Street Hospital. Yesterday we had the opportunity to drop in on Mara as she worked, together with her partner Gary Avis, on brand new pieces by choreographers [...]
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by Emilia on April 13, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You love the thought of a mashup between The Sleeping Beauty (a classical, grand ballet) and a funny work like La Fille Mal Gardée. Skip if: Certain people find Prokofiev’s haunting score a tad too moody. And you may want to skip the Ashton version if Panto interspersed [...]
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by Linda on December 15, 2009
In their final programme of the year The Royal Ballet celebrates Sir Frederick Ashton, the founder choreographer who gave this company a wonderful classical repertory and British ballet a defining style. Initially I thought of this double bill as a case of odd pairing since, on one corner, appealing to the Ashton addicts and older [...]
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Since mixed reviews (including our previous opening night write up) have plagued the Royal Ballet’s celebratory “Ballets Russes Triple Bill”, I approached last Friday’s penultimate performance with a mixture of curiosity and excitement. By now, I thought, with most of the “nerves” gone and all the quirks fixed, it is not unreasonable to expect the [...]
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